Sudan Journalists Protest Over Jailed Editor.
Pro-government Sudanese men remove anti-regime posters from a building in the capital Khartoum on March 26, 2019. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has cut the maximum jail term for violating the country’s state of emergency from 10 years to six months/ AFPDozens of Sudanese journalists Monday protested in downtown Khartoum demanding the release of a prominent editor detained for criticising a state of emergency imposed by President Omar al-Bashir, witnesses said.
The journalists gathered in downtown Khartoum to express their solidarity with Mirghani and to fight for freedom of expression in the east African country. Mirghani was arrested after an interview with Sky News Arabia in which he said Bashir’s measures would “spark a new wave” of protests and send a message that the public “can exert more pressure to achieve its goal of removing this regime”.
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